Marco Truffelli has been appointed as new General Manager of Verdura Resort, a Rocco Forte hotel in Sicily, Italy.
With a solid track record of 28 years in luxury hospitality, Truffelli is a result based professional with both creative and strategic thinking and vision. He is a graduate of Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and he holds an MBA from the University of Edinburgh Business School. A passionate and effective team developer and shaper, Truffelli started his career with Trust House Forte at the Hyde Park Hotel in London. He later worked at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic and was the MD of The Town House Collection in Scotland before starting an international hospitality management, consultancy and advisory company. From 2014, Marco was General Manager of Borgo Egnazia in Puglia.
Truffelli will start at Verdura Resort on 1st March and will manage the resort alongside Ivan Artolli, Managing Director at Verdura Resort as well as Group Operations Director of Rocco Forte Hotels.
“I am very proud to welcome Marco Truffelli in my team at Verdura Resort – states Artolli – we’ve just been rewarded with the Excellent Award and have been defined as one of the excellence in Italian hospitality industry as well as the landmark of luxury hospitality in Sicily. I am certain that with Marco, thanks to his enthusiasm, his determination and professionalism, we will be able to achieve further and more ambitious objectives.”
